*Harry Manx – Faith Lift (Dog My Cat)

*Matt Minglewood – Fly Like Desperados (Cape Music)

*Steve Kozak – It’s Time (Self)

Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio (Alligator)

*Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie – Old Friends (Black Hen)

*Manitoba Hal – Live in Ghent (Hal’s Kitchen)

Reverend Freakchild – Preachin’ The Blues (TreatedandReleased)

Knickerbocker All-Stars – Texas Rhody Blues (JP Cadillac)

John Mayall – Talk About That (Forty Below)

*Mike Goudreau & The Boppin’ Blues Band – Sweet Blues (PMG)

Taj Mahal – Labor of Love (APO/MusicMaker)

Poppa Chubby – The Catfish (PCP)

*Elliott and the Audio Kings (Busted Flat)

*Lucas Haneman Express – Tearing Up The Rails (Self)

*Jeff Healey – Holding On (Convexe/Eagle/Universal)

*Debra Power – Even Redheads Get The Blues (Self)

Eight O’Five Jive – Swing Set (Red Rudy Too)

*The Vaudevillian – Bringing Satan Down (Busted Flat)

Vasti Jackson – The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers (Self)

Boo Boo Davis – Live & Almost Unplugged (Black & Tan)

* = Canadian

This month’s recommended listening by John Valenteyn, host of John Valenteyn’s Blues on ciut.fm, 89.5 and CD reviewer for Maple Blues. You can drop by and say hello to John at the blues Department of HMV on Yonge Street